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A SLAVE PEN AT NEW ORLEANs BEFORE THE AUCTION.jpg |
A NEGRO REGIMENT INACTION.jpg |
A SLAVE AUCTION AT THE SOUTH.jpg |
ABDUCTION OF A WHITE GIRL BY SLAVEHUNTERS.jpg |
BEFORE THE INAUGURATION HARRISON.jpg |
BEFORE THE INAUGURATION HARRISON1.jpg |
BEN BRUNO, NEGRO SLAVE AND FAVORITE.jpg |
BLIND TOM THE CELEBRATED NEGRO PIANIST.jpg |
CAMP OF NEGRO REFUGEES Sketched by Theodore R. Davis.jpg |
CELEBRATION OF THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT Of COLUMBIA BY THE COLORED PEOPLE, IN WASHINGTON, April 19, 1866.jpg |
COLORED EMIGRANTS SEEKING HOMES IN THE NORTH.jpg |
COLORED ORPHAN ASYLUM, MEMPHIS, TENNESSE A GROUP OF PORTRAITS SKETCHED FROM LIFE.jpg |
COLORED PEOPLE GATHERING FIRE WOOD A WINTER SCENE IN VIRIGINA.jpg |
COLORED RULE IN A RECONSTRUCTED.jpg |
COLORED SCHOLARS LEARNING THEIR LESSONS ON THE STREET.jpg |
COLORED SCHOLARS ON THEIR WAY TO SCHOOL.jpg |
COLORED SCHOOL OBJECT TEACHING.jpg |
COLORED TROOPS ATTACKING INDIANS NEAR WILSON CREEK STATION.jpg |
COLORED TROOPS, UNDER GENERAL WILD, LIBERATING SLAVES IN NORTH CAROLINA.jpg |
CONDITION PRECEDENT..jpg |
DANIEL HAND, OF GUILFORD, CONNECTICUT, THE FRIEND.jpg |
DUEL BETWEEN COLORED MEN NEAR SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.jpg |
EAST AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE VIEW OF THE PORT OF MUSCAT, ARABIA.jpg |
EDUCATION OF THE FREEDMEN.jpg |
EMANCIPATED SLAVES, WHITE AND COLORED. The Children Are From The Schools Established In New Orleans, By Order Of Major-General Banks.jpg |
EXECUTION OF GORDON THE SLAVE-TRADER.jpg |
FEEDING THE NEGRO CHILDREN UNDER CHARGE OF THE MILITARY AUTHORITIES AT HILTON HEAD, SOUTH CAROLINA.jpg |
FIRES AT PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA RUINS OF THE COLORED BAPTIST CHURCH ON HARRISON STREET.jpg |
FIRST MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN RICHMOND SINCE THE END OF THE WAR REGISTRATION OF COLORED VOTERS.jpg |
FREDERICK DOUGLASS.jpg |
FREDERICK DOUGLASS1.jpg |
FREEDMEN'S SCHOOL HOUSE AT ATLANTA, GEORGIA.jpg |
FUNERAL OF THE LATE CAPTAIN CAILLOUX.jpg |
GENERALS STEEDMAN AND FULLERTON CONFERRING WITH THE FREEDMEN IN THEIR CHURCH.jpg |
Gentleman.jpg |
GREAT UNION AND EMANCIPATION MEETING.jpg |
IMPETUOUS CHARGE OF THE FIRST COLORED REBEL REGIMENT.jpg |
MARCHING ON THE FIFTY FIFTH MASSACHUSETTS COLORED REGIMENT SINGING JOHN BROWN'S MARCH.jpg |
MARKS OF PUNISHMENT INFLICTED UPON A COLORED SERVANT IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.jpg |
MARRIAGE OF A COLORED SOLDIER AT VICKSBURG BY CHAPLAIN WARREN OF THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU.jpg |
NATURAL MISTAKES.jpg |
NEGRO HUTS AT TRENT RIVER SETTLEMENT.jpg |
NEGRO IN STOCKS A SCENE IN FLORIDA.jpg |
NEGRO QUARTERS IN SULLIVAN STREET.jpg |
NEGRO QUARTERS, ARMY OF THE JAMES..jpg |
NEGRO RECRUITS AT CHARLESTON..jpg |
NOON AT THE PRIMARY SCHOOL FOR FREEDMEN.jpg |
OFFICE OF THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.jpg |
OUR COLORED TROOPS AT WORK.jpg |
SCENES IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, DURING THE RIOT.jpg |
Sensation among.jpg |
SLAVE PICKING COTTON.jpg |
ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SCHOOL FOR COLORED CHILDREN.jpg |
TEACHING THE NEGRO RECRUITS THE USE OF THE MINIE RIFLe.jpg |
TERMINAL STATION OF THE COLORED EXODUS FLORAL HALL AND SECRETARY'S OFFICE, NOW IN USE AS BARRACKSFAIR GROUNDS.jpg |
THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN SCHOOL FOR FREEDMEN.jpg |
THE CENSUS OF 1860.jpg |
THE COLORED CREEDMOOR.jpg |
THE COLORED EXODUS SCENES AT TOPEKA, KANSAS.jpg |
THE EMANCIPATION OF THE NEGROES, JANUARY, 1863 THE PAST AND THE FUTURE.jpg |
THE ESCAPED SLAVE.jpg |
THE FIFTEENTH.jpg |
THE FIRST AFRICAN CHURCH, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.jpg |
THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU AT RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.jpg |
THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU.jpg |
THE FREEDMEN'S VILLAGE.jpg |
THE GRAND ARMY.jpg |
THE GRAND GUARD MARCHING TO, AND NEGRO FATIGUE PARTY RETURNING FROM, THE TRENCHES IN FRONT OF WAGNER.jpg |
THE NATIONAL COLORED CONVENTION IN SESSION AT WASHINGTON,.jpg |
THE NEGRO CELEBRATION IN.jpg |
THE NEGRO CELEBRATION IN1.jpg |
THE NEGRO SENTINEL SHOOTING THE GUERRILLA BURROUGHS..jpg |
THE NEW ERA.jpg |
THE REV. JOSIAH HENSON.jpg |
THE RIOT IN NEW ORLEANS.jpg |
THE RIOTS AT NEW YORK THE RIOTERS BURNING AND SACKING THE COLORED ORPHAN ASYLUM.jpg |
THE RUINS OF THE OLD SLAVE MARKET.jpg |
THE SLAVE DECK OF THE BARK.jpg |
THE SLAVE HUNT.jpg |
THE SLAVE-SHIP SIGHTING AN ENGLISH CRUISER.jpg |
THE TWENTIETH UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS RECEIVING THEIR COLORS.jpg |
THE USUAL CAUSE.jpg |
THE UTE WAR THE COLORED TROOPS FIGHTING THEIR WAY INTO THE BELEAGUERED CAMP. Drawn by C.S.Reinhart.jpg |
THE WAR IN CUBA INSURGENT PICKET OF FREEDMEN.jpg |
THE WHITED SEPULCHRE.jpg |
THIS A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT.jpg |
TWO SLAVE HUNTERS EXPELLED FROM THE CAMP.jpg |
WHAT THE COLORED RACE HAVE TO BE THANKFUL FOR.jpg |
WHIPPING A NEGRO GIRL IN NORTH CAROLINA.jpg |
ZION SCHOOL FOR COLORED CHILDREN, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.jpg |